“Don’t mind him. Don’t take his advice.”
Are you TRYING to be a jerk? That’s WHY your parents would have punished you for lying as a kid. Because everyone always needs to tell the truth.
It’s AC that’s being overly dramatic about it. He doesn’t know that they were just being honest and he probably has a bad temper. Stop defending AC and instead take your mind out of the shadows, light the room up! Try to understand that Ray didn’t do anything other than tell the truth!